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LINGUISTIC SEMANTICS

An introduction

 

 

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LINGUISTIC SEMANTICS

An Introduction

JOHN LYONS

Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clar­ifications of its specialized terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical semantics and to contemporary pragmatics. With its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership.

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© Cambridge University Press 1995

First published 1995 Reprinted 1996

Lmginstic Semantics: An Introduction succeeds and replaces Language, Meaning and Context, first published by Fontana/Collins in 1981.

Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data

Lyons, John, 1932- Linguistic semantics: an introduction/John Lyons.

p. cm. i

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0 521 43302 9 (hardback) -
ISBN 0 521 43877 2 (paperback)
1. Semantics. I. Title.
P3325.L9595 1995

401'.43-dc20 95-49736 CIP

ISBN 0521 43302 9 hardback ISBN 0 521 43877 2 paperback

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Contents

Page

Preface xi

List of symbols and typographical conventions xvii